![]() ![]() ![]() The program primarily deals with the actions of Edison Carter, an investigative reporter for Network 23 (a corporate conglomerate which controls 10,000 wavelengths) and his computer-generated alterego, Max Headroom. ![]() A vast homeless segment of the population exists in a nebulous "fringe" area, and the population and the ruling class evince total disregard for "humanist values." Cynicism is so prevalent in the narrative line that it appears to be the program's dominant paradigm. MAX HEADROOM takes place in a world "twenty minutes in the future." In that world, everyone stays tuned to their television 24 hours a day. The show ran six episodes, was cancelled, then renewed in the fall of 1987, only to be cancelled again. By bringing attention both to the framework and content of television, the show attempts a critique of televisual society's deadening commercialism. "Max Headroom" by Erik MacDonald JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1989, 2006ĪBC'S MAX HEADROOM, which premiered April, 1987, poses certain theoretical questions central to media culture. ![]()
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